Articles
Contribution of External Forces to Left Ventricular Diastolic Pressure: Implications for the Clinical Use of the Starling Law
Kent Dauterman, Peter H. Pak, W. Lowell Maughan, Amit Nussbacher, Sigemituzo Arie, Chun-Peng Liu, and David A. Kass
The Safety and Diagnostic Accuracy of Minibronchoalveolar Lavage in Patients with Suspected Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia
Marin H. Kollef, Kevin R. Bock, Rodger D. Richards, and Mona L. Hearns
Does Eradicating Bacteriuria Affect the Severity of Chronic Urinary Incontinence in Nursing Home Residents?
Joseph G. Ouslander, Moises Schapira, John F. Schnelle, Gwen Uman, Susan Fingold, Edward Tuico, and Jennifer Glatler Nigam
Intermittent Trimethoprim-Sulfamethoxazole Compared with Dapsone-Pyrimethamine for the Simultaneous Primary Prophylaxis of Pneumocystis Pneumonia and Toxoplasmosis in Patients Infected with HIV
Daniel Podzamczer, Albert Salazar, Josep Jimenez, Ezequiel Consiglio, Miguel Santin, Aurora Casanova, Gabriel Rufi, and Francisco Gudiol
Brief Communications
An Outbreak of Burkholderia (Formerly Pseudomonas ) cepacia Respiratory Tract Colonization and Infection Associated with Nebulized Albuterol Therapy
Richard J. Hamill, Eric D. Houston, Paul R. Georghiou, Charles E. Wright, Maureen A. Koza, Richard M. Cadle, Paul A. Goepfert, Debra A. Lewis, Golden J. Zenon, and Jill E. Clarridge
Eradication of Helicobacter pylori Infection in Primary Low-Grade Gastric Lymphoma of Mucosa-Associated Lymphoid Tissue
Enrico Roggero, Emanuele Zucca, Graziella Pinotti, Anna Pascarella, Carlo Capella, Antonella Savio, Ennio Pedrinis, Alessandro Paterlini, Achille Venco, and Franco Cavalli
Reviews
Implantable Cardioverter-Defibrillators: Implications for the Nonelectrophysiologist
Sergio L. Pinski and Richard G. Trohman
Diethylstilbestrol Revisited: A Review of the Long-Term Health Effects
Ruthann M. Giusti, Kumiko Iwamoto, and Elizabeth E. Hatch
History of Medicine
A Leading Medical School Seriously Damaged: Vienna 1938
Edzard Ernst
Editorials
Medicine and the Holocaust: Learning More of the Lessons
Barron H. Lerner and David J. Rothman
Straight Talk about Rationing
Arthur L. Caplan
On Being a Doctor
The Privilege and the Pain
Linda Emanuel
Letters
Increased Resting Metabolic Rate in Congestive Heart Failure
Eric T. Poehlman, Stephen S. Gottlieb, and Peter Vaitekevicius—RESPONSE
Diagnosis and Treatment of Primary Aldosteronism
Jon D. Blumenfeld, E. Darracott Vaughan, Jr., and John H. Laragh—RESPONSE
Bone Density and Body Weight in Hyperparathyroidism
Andrew Grey, Margaret Evans, and Ian R. Reid—RESPONSE
Dapsone in Thrombocytopenia of the Antiphospholipid Antibody Syndrome
Philippe Lesprit, Bertrand Godeau, and Bertrand Wechsler
Possible Transmission of Hepatitis C Virus Infection with Intravenous Immunoglobulin
Thomas D. Schiano, Somashekhar V. Bellary, and Martin Black
Hepatotoxicity Caused by Metronidazole Overdose
Pemphigus of the Larynx and Esophagus
Nikolaos G. Frangogiannis, Subroto Gangopadhyay, and Thomas Cate
Subspecialty Work Force Issues
Literature of Medicine
Reviews and Notes: Health Data in the Information Age: Use, Disclosure, and Privacy
Reviews and Notes: History of Medicine: Order Out of Chaos: John Shaw Billings and America's Coming of Age
Reviews and Notes: History of Medicine: History of Nephrology
Reviews and Notes: Pharmacology: Drug Facts and Comparisons
Reviews and Notes: Pharmacology: Modern Pharmacology
Reviews and Notes: Pharmacology: Teratogenic Effects of Drugs: A Resource for Clinicians
Reviews and Notes: Pharmacology: Drugs in Pregnancy and Lactation: A Reference Guide to Fetal and Neonatal Risk
Reviews and Notes: Ethics: Health Care Ethics: Critical Issues
Reviews and Notes: Ethics: Competence to Consent
Reviews and Notes: Geriatrics: The Graying of the World: Who Will Care for the Frail Elderly?
Reviews and Notes: Geriatrics: HMOs and the Elderly
Reviews and Notes: Physical Medicine: Exercise for Prevention and Treatment of Illness
Reviews and Notes: Hematology: Hematology: Basic Principles and Practice
Reviews and Notes: Hematology: Self-Assessment in Clinical Hematology
Reviews and Notes: Hematology: Williams Hematology
Reviews and Notes: Hematology: Clinical Bone Marrow Transplantation
Reviews and Notes: Radiology: Human Cross-Sectional Anatomy: Pocket Atlas of Body Sections and CT Images
Reviews and Notes: Radiology: MRI Survival Guide
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